xkcd

NotSteve_ , in xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers

The discussion on the explain wiki page makes me sad. So many anti-vaxxers

Phanatik ,

I only saw one and I'm not convinced they're a scientist as they claim. Most of the other people seemed reasonable enough.

bane_killgrind , in xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers

I didn't know the different stick figures had names

Chickenstalker , in xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers

Antivaxxers are the same nutjobs who have now latched on to the muh ayylmao congressional testimony. The same people who shat on one authority figure (Fauci etc.) are now worshipping another (Grusch).

tryptaminev ,
@tryptaminev@feddit.de avatar

Because the one authority says to trust in science and it is complicated. The other authority says to just follow his gut and you dont need to bother with logic anyways because fuck nerds. Also you are so smart for listening to it and all the other people are dumb.

So of course the idiots like to listen to the second one.

6mementomori , in xkcd #2807: Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude)

this is very interesting

feedum_sneedson , in xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers

Haven’t been keeping up to date with this. Has there actually been an uptick in cardiac problems due to the vaccine? I know my resting heart rate was chronically elevated, seemingly after I caught the coronavirus and continued distance running without realising. And I was fully vaccinated already. What’s the current evidence on all these claims? And what should I be doing, as somebody trying to improve their cardiovascular fitness?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

There is a tiny percentage chance that you will develop myocarditis, temporarily, if you get vaccinated.

There’s a greater chance you will develop myocarditis if you get COVID.

keyboardpithecus , (edited ) in xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers

Antivaxxers are cartoonish characters created by the media to discredit those who opposed people in power. People like Trump or Bolsonaro said a lot of stupid and wrong things on purpose to discredit all the arguments. All the antivaxxers who appeared on the media are no better, actors playing the role of the idiots.

The opinion of the real opposition is:

COVID19 vaccines were available when the overwhelming majority of people already developed the antibodies on their own, therefore they were useless.

Viruses of that family mutate so frequently and are so contagious that there is no way to develop a vaccine on time. They will always arrive after people already came into contact with the virus and fought it off on their own.

Also the lock downs started after people already had their course with the virus and fought it off on their own. Lock downs were politically motivated, they saved absolutely nobody.

The story of the heart conditions looks like another false alarm to distract the attention from the real problem. Until now we used vaccines for a limited number of serious diseases and the vaccines were carefully tested over a long period. That was a sensible way to use vaccines because the mechanism is still not fully understood by science. Imposing by force two vaccinations every year with untested vaccines means playing too much with a mechanism we do not fully understand and nobody knows what the long term consequences could be.

UltiemeBanaan , in xkcd #1172: Workflow

The user’s always right

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

Not in my experience. The three most dangerous things in the world are:

  • A programmer with a soldering iron.
  • An HVAC tech with a software patch.
  • A user with an idea.
And009 ,

What about the designer… Can they program

newIdentity ,

No. Usually not really

This is why most open source projects are ugly

Cabrio ,

One sentence horror story:

Full-stack developer.

Delta_44 ,

What if I’m a bit of both?

Still ,
@Still@programming.dev avatar

I should put down the soldering iron I guess

would make my electronics projects less horrible

ShadedCosmos ,
@ShadedCosmos@lemmy.world avatar

Haha as a programmer who has worked on a handful of soldering projects this is so true.

Feathercrown ,

“So I’ve been thinking…”

“Well that’s dangerous!”

Caoldence222 ,

Pretty much: everyone’s dumb when they’re talking about shit they don’t know about and have no experience with. If you let people collaborate organically though, they can understand eachother better and come up with much better ideas than if they were each working separately in their own separate little departments and communicating via help desk tickets and bug reports

thesprongler ,

I recently had a user claim the upgrade from office 2019 to 365 broke her laptop screen.

deweydecibel ,

That, truly, is indictive of every user complaint ever, therefore no complaint has merit.

StarkillerX42 , in xkcd #2810: How to Coil a Cable

I feel personally attacked

tal , in xkcd #1172: Workflow
@tal@kbin.social avatar

Emacs itself is actually impressively good at not breaking workflows, given how configurable the package is.

SkyeHarith ,

Other software: Don’t like this change? Go fork yourself.

Open Source software: Don’t like this change? Go fork it yourself.

Emacs: What do you mean you don’t like this change? You wrote the Elisp for the package yourself.

rarely , in xkcd #2810: How to Coil a Cable

Over-under ftw!

bloopernova ,
@bloopernova@programming.dev avatar

You heathen! Quarter turn with each loop!

Hey, this is way better than Emacs vs vim.

rarely ,

Of course it is. Why would anyone want to use emacs? Also why would anyone use spaces instead of tabs?

xkforce , in xkcd #1172: Workflow

Minecraft players when an update changes something thats been a certain way from the beginning.

DarkenLM ,

That's the reason quasi connectivity exists.

reddithalation ,

you bet im still on 1.8 for the combat, lol

Sigh_Bafanada ,

You bet I’m still on beta 1.8 for that machine gun bow combat

Jakylla OP ,
@Jakylla@sh.itjust.works avatar

“Mods was a bug, now it’s fixed, no more hacking the game, users will be able to play as intended.”

clearedtoland , in xkcd #2810: How to Coil a Cable

Next, do a garden hose. That beast is impossible to tame!

totallynotarobot ,

Lies. Reverse coil or figure 8 (which is just a sort of spread out reverse coil). Wraps easily, unwrap easily.

jarfil ,

Extensible hose with an inner silicone tube and outer braiding.

No matter how you mangle or bunch it up, it springs back and untangles itself the moment you put water in it.

PM_me_your_doggo , in xkcd #1172: Workflow
@PM_me_your_doggo@lemmy.world avatar

If you make 1x1 pixel transparent undocumented button hidden in the most obscure place, which when pressed will spawn five elephants with severe diarrhea right near the user and then four clowns will appear and rape that user and then a meteor will fall right from the skies, someone surely will build a business process around that button

joel_feila ,
@joel_feila@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah it called X

deweydecibel , (edited ) in xkcd #1172: Workflow

Counterpoint: devs frequently downplay user’s needs and inflate the importance of their own ideas, and because they’re often in an echo chamber of their own team’s environment, they never hear meaningful kickback from anyone they respect (because they certainly don’t respect users).

Then they share this comic back forth literally every time users complain.

Someone, in the slack channels of reddit’s devs, shared this exact comic with this exact attitude because of the backlash. And it was met with the same approval as the comments here.

newIdentity ,

Nah. I’m pretty sure they’re mad too. They just can’t really do anything against it since it’s not their decision

loudWaterEnjoyer ,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Our users are literially the most irritating people on earth

GBU_28 ,

I met a user for a tool I built at work. It was the worst.

Ape550 ,

This is it exactly. Was a product manager and this is exactly the issue I faced with devs that had no real world usage experience.

PRUSSIA_x86 ,

People often forget the value in field verifying and it drives me insane.

echodot ,

Wh have met with the users who use our product. But they don’t seem very able to articulate what it is they actually want or need from the system. It’s always vague ideas and nothing actionable.

Them: Oh we need to be able to find customers even if they can’t remember their account number.
Us: Yes but you can, just enter the company name.

This is usually met with either a vague “yeah” or “no not like that”, and then they never elaborate.

GuyDudeman , in xkcd #2810: How to Coil a Cable
@GuyDudeman@lemmy.world avatar

Much like the old internet adage: if you want to know the answer to something, confidently state the wrong answer, and inevitably someone who knows the correct answer will chime in to correct you.

Untitled_Pribor ,

Yep, that's called the Batman smells effect.

pootzapie ,

I appreciate you!

PeterPoopshit ,

You used to be able to get people to quickly give you an exact no bullshit straight to the point answer in Linux support forums by making a post along the lines of “Linux sucks because x never works. Windows is obviously superior because it’s possible to make x work”. Someone would then refute all your points and post how to fix your problem.

GuyDudeman ,
@GuyDudeman@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly.

jarfil ,

Nowadays the answer is “BS, x works out of the box on both, RTFM noob” 😛

jalda ,

Betteridge’s law

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